You know, Joe...Pixar and DreamWorks use PBR in a lot of their films. Last I checked, they don't do photorealistic characters. Just sayin'. Don't mean to pick a fight but being a creative person I would think other creative people would find more than just one use for the render engine.

How true, Pixar, Dreamworks, Disney, and others are all using ray tracing (and are/have moved away from faked GI) and relying more and more on physically based workflows now (lighting and materials) for the improved efficiency the provide (even though render times are longer). This was done with Iray, and it isn't "photo-realistic" at all, but to me it does look 3D. For me, lighting and materials in a PBR are much easier than in Firefly. I don't strive for photo-realism (what ever that really is), but I do want my images to look like real 3D. Could this had been done equally as well with FireFly or insert your favorite non- PBR renderer here? Yes, I would say it could. But for me, using either Iray or Octane is so much easier that I avoid using non-PBR render engines now, of course your mileage may vary.

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